International law firm Dorsey & Whitney has expanded its highly regarded cross-border transactional practice with the hire of senior international transactional lawyer Stewart Worthy as a Partner in the Firm’s London office. Worthy joins the firm from King & Wood Mallesons in London.
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces today that Christopher Hagenbuch has joined the Firm’s Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice as partner. Resident in the New York Meatpacking office, Hagenbuch represents private equity, venture capital and other institutional investors along with emerging growth tech companies in strategic transactions. Hagenbuch joins Dentons from Troutman Pepper.
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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a multidisciplinary, integrated professional services firm, announced today that Manatt Digital and Technology Partners Timothy Lohse and Michel C. Narganes have joined the Firm in its Palo Alto and San Francisco offices, respectively. The arrival of Lohse—a member of the Technology and Intellectual Property Litigation practice—and Narganes—a member of the Digital and Technology Transactions practice—further augments Manatt’s legal, regulatory and consulting offerings for entrepreneurs, business leaders and VCs, underscoring its continued commitment to supporting clients at the forefront of the rapidly evolving digital frontier. Lohse joins from DLA Piper, Narganes joins the firm from Crowell & Moring, LLP.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Victor Chang as a partner in the benefits, ESOPs, and executive compensation practice area, and Yi Ying as a partner in the antitrust, competition, and trade regulation practice area. Both join K&L Gates’ Washington, D.C., office, with Chang arriving from Jones Day and Ying from White & Case LLP.
Jean Park has joined Cooley’s leading public companies practice group as a partner in New York. Most recently having served as a partner at Simpson Thacher, Park brings extensive experience advising companies, investment banks and investors on a broad range of transactional and general corporate and securities laws matters, with a focus on companies and investors in the technology and healthcare sectors.
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O’Melveny announced today that prominent private equity finance specialist, Ike Chidi, has joined the firm as a Corporate Finance partner based in Century City. Chidi joins from the Los Angeles office of McDermott, Will & Emery.
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Leading law firm, Katten Muchin Rosenman UK LLP (Katten) has today announced the appointment of partner Christopher Harrison to the firm’s capital markets group in London. Chris joins Katten from Vedder Price where he was a partner.
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Global law firm Shearman & Sterling today announces the appointment of Stephen Gruendel as a Leveraged Finance partner in the Finance group, based in New York. His arrival adds to the firm’s expanding global and transatlantic leveraged finance offering. This follows the appointment of Heather Waters Borthwick in New York, Daniel Tristan in Houston, a four-partner team with leveraged finance expertise in Paris as well as Sanjeev Dhuna, Gary Hamp and Rahul Chatterji in London over the past year. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Stephen was a counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.
Continuing its expansion in Texas, O’Melveny announced today the arrival of “rising star” trial and appellate lawyer Kristin Cope as a partner in the firm’s new Dallas office. Cope joins as former partner in Baker Botts’ Dallas office.
Tags: O'Melveny & Myers, LLP | DallasGlobal law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Jason Putnam Gordon as a partner in the emerging growth and venture capital practice. Gordon joins K&L Gates’ San Francisco office from Polsinelli LLP.
